I couldn’t help but be impressed by ;Ramit Sethi‘s webinar last night (http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com).
He was speaking about client psychology and ways to push your clients beyond

I was leafing through the final pages of Carl Crow’s Foreign Devils In the Flowery Kingdom (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9889963337?ie=UTF8&tag=adadanmez-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=9889963337) and was attracted to a line Crow mentions about Shanghailanders (of the period) creating ground-breaking problems for themselves where none previously existed.

He was comparing life back in the States to life in interwar China and I couldn’t help but draw the parallel to my life here in Toronto today.

This year I’m getting back to China basics, so I’m dipping into a series of collected Earnshaw Books (http://www.earnshawbooks.com) titles I’d purchased late in 2009 and since neglected.

Believe it or not, I hadn’t touched them for almost all of 2010 (the legacy of a failed relationship and the associations between that and my China work), so I’m delighted as all get-out to be returning to Carl Crow’s 1930s-era classic Foreign Devils in the Flowery Kingdom (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9889963337?ie=UTF8&tag=adadanmez-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=9889963337).

Here were some of my thoughts after the first few pages in…

I recently finished Romeo Dallaire’s They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0802779565?ie=UTF8&tag=adadanmez-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0802779565). It’s a book about the global scourge of child soldiering…

For those of you who don’t know Romeo Dallaire, he was the force commander of 1994′s failed UNAMIR mission in Rwanda which lead to the needless deaths of over 800,000+ souls who continues to suffer from a chronic case of PTSD as a result of his experiences in that conflict.

These were some of my early reflections following my just-completed read…

My recent review of Laura Hillenbrand‘s Unbroken had me thinking about history, and how everything is so *not* relative, contrary to the opinions of some.

Here are my thoughts on the matter…